Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Hey Kids, It's the Cannibal Holocaust Live-Tweet!

There are some things in life that you don't really want to do, but you have to do. I've been called to task in the past for never having seen Ruggero Deodato's sleaze opus Cannibal Holocaust--although I had glimpsed some of the nastier bits on YouTube to satisfy my morbid curiosity, I had never seen the film all the way through from beginning to end.

Yeah, like Theron I haven't watched CH yet, and I'm not exactly in a hurry to do so-the same goes for "I Spit on Your Grave". I'm sure I'll get around to watching both at some point though. Anyway, your thoughts on the movie were pretty entertaining.

As a long time vegan/CH fan, there's obviously a weird conflict going on in my head. I've seen the movie probably half a dozen times at this point, but have always turned away at the animal violence. Just didn't feel it was necessary to see it. Deodato says these days he regrets doing it but then ends up adding on things like, "But at least the crew ate them afterwards," like that's suppose to make it OK.

In any event, I'm glad when Grindhouse released it on DVD a few years ago, they included an "animal friendly" version that skips the scenes of animal violence.

As a hunter and pet owner, I was appalled by the events on film during the pig sequence. I will shoot and eat deer, turkey, pheasant, etc. But I abhor cruelty and violence for the sake of bloodthirstiness. B-Sol had it right: they should have been incarcerated. They might as well have been shooting a dog tethered to a stick.

And, not for nothing, but if that was real [and it looked real to me], and these yahoos were running around with loaded rifles and shotguns like that, pointing them every which way, it is a miracle they didn't shoot themselves or each other.

Which horror film *should* be remade?

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